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The Shaky Isles

Posted on 17 August, 2013 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

I won’t make too much out of the recent effects of Seddon’s seismic activity on Wellington, at least until it gets any worse. Yesterday afternoon I was traversing through part of the Tinakori Hill, trying to determine how long it’d … Continue reading →

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Completing a Kaiwharawhara Stream Walk

Posted on 20 August, 2012 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

It’s good to read (via The Wellingtonian and Stuff) that some positive effort is being made to open up a small section of land on the harbour side of Wellington’s incoming motorway. The article doesn’t mention it, but the beach … Continue reading →

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A miscellaneous Belmont and Hutt River walk

Posted on 22 August, 2010 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

Yesterday was fairly sunny, as winter days in Wellington go, and I found myself on a fairly miscellaneous wander through parts of Belmont Regional Park and (eventually) Lower Hutt. [Download GPX] [

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Daywalk: Wellington to Whitby via Belmont Regional Park

Posted on 23 November, 2009 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

Yesterday I went for a walk, a week after returning home, to try and get back into the swing of things. It first took me to Ngauranga (I needed to buy something from LV Martin), but then I just kept … Continue reading →

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Windy on the Skyline Walkway

Posted on 3 October, 2009 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

I had the second half of an afternoon to kill earlier today, and went for a short walk down to Otari Wilton’s Bush, not far from where I live. Somehow I ended up on the Skyline Walkway, maybe because I … Continue reading →

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Wellington Harbour bottle caps

Posted on 12 July, 2009 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

Earlier today I walked around Oriental Parade and up over the Southern Walkway, and hopping off at Kilbirnie before spending about an hour sitting under the northern end of the runway at Wellington Airport, watching the planes struggle in. It … Continue reading →

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Workplace dizziness

Posted on 19 June, 2009 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

Lately I’ve set myself an informal rule at work whereby if I want to visit the junk food floor (for the primary purpose of obtaining junk food), I have to take the stairs there and back. I figure this fits … Continue reading →

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Kaka in Central Wellington

Posted on 1 June, 2009 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

I was walking home this afternoon and spotted a Kaka climbing around in the low branches of trees on the north side of Anderson Park near the Wellington Botanic Gardens, which was very cool. I thought it was a Tui … Continue reading →

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The right to walk from A to B

Posted on 25 May, 2009 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

I’ve found it interesting reading about the events in Auckland over the last few days, during which several thousand protesters broke through police barriers to walk and cycle over the Auckland Harbour Bridge. This was against the wishes of the … Continue reading →

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Recreational impressions of New Plymouth

Posted on 10 January, 2009 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

I’ve been back in Wellington for a week now, but I suppose there’s one lasting impression I wanted to express about Taranaki and specifically New Plymouth which I’ve now visited quite a few times over the last several years. Even … Continue reading →

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